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Final Nielsen Ratings From Recent Sports Telecasts On Broadcast, Cable TV
Published May 20, 2011
The charts below list final Nielsen ratings from recent sports telecasts. All ratings listed are U.S. ratings (THE DAILY).
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
VIEWERS (000)
|
| NASCAR Sprint Cup: FedEx 400 (Dover) |
5/15
|
Fox
|
1:30-4:34pm
|
4.4
|
7,391
|
| NBA Western Conference Semifinals: Thunder-Grizzlies: Game Seven |
5/15
|
ABC
|
3:22-6:05pm
|
4.4
|
7,141
|
| PGA Tour: The Players: Final Round |
5/15
|
NBC
|
2:00-7:32pm
|
3.1
|
4,672
|
| MLB: (regional) |
5/14
|
Fox
|
7:11-10:23pm
|
2.6
|
4,103
|
| PGA Tour: The Players: Third Round |
5/14
|
NBC
|
2:00-8:13pm
|
1.4
|
2,132
|
| National Heads-Up Poker Championship (taped) |
5/15
|
NBC
|
12:00-2:00pm
|
0.8
|
1,113
|
| National High School Slam Dunk, 3-Point Contest (taped) |
5/14
|
CBS
|
5:00-6:00pm
|
0.7
|
1,082
|
| NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championships (taped) |
5/14
|
CBS
|
3:00-5:00pm
|
0.7
|
1,005
|
| Global Golf Adventure (taped) |
5/14
|
NBC
|
1:30-2:00pm
|
0.3
|
460
|
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
VIEWERS (000)
|
| NBA Eastern Conference Finals: Heat-Bulls: Game One |
5/15
|
TNT
|
8:03-10:37pm
|
6.2
|
11,109
|
| NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals: Heat-Celtics: Game Four |
5/9
|
TNT
|
7:00-9:56pm
|
4.7
|
7,824
|
| NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals: Heat-Celtics: Game Five |
5/11
|
TNT
|
7:00-9:40pm
|
4.3
|
6,777
|
| NBA Western Conference Semifinals: Thunder-Grizzlies: Game Four |
5/9
|
TNT
|
9:56pm-1:43am
|
3.5
|
5,592
|
| NBA Western Conference Semifinals: Thunder-Grizzlies: Game Five |
5/11
|
TNT
|
9:40pm-12:13am
|
3.4
|
5,462
|
| NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals: Bulls-Hawks: Game Five |
5/10
|
TNT
|
8:15-10:54pm
|
3.3
|
5,100
|
| NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals: Bulls-Hawks: Game Six |
5/12
|
ESPN
|
7:58-10:36pm
|
3.1
|
5,085
|
| NBA Western Conference Semifinals: Thunder-Grizzlies: Game Six |
5/13
|
ESPN
|
9:02-11:44pm
|
2.9
|
4,750
|
| MLB: Red Sox-Yankees |
5/15
|
ESPN
|
8:00-11:52pm
|
2.1
|
3,294
|
| NASCAR Nationwide Series: 5-Hour Energy 200 |
5/14
|
ESPN
|
2:04-6:24pm
|
1.3
|
1,908
|
SCORING OPPORTUNITY: ESPN2 earned a 0.2 U.S. rating and 328,000 viewers for last Saturday's Timbers-Sounders FC match from 11:00pm-1:06am ET, which was the first match in the new MLS Cascadia Cup series (THE DAILY). The game earned a 3.0 local rating in Seattle-Tacoma and a 2.2 rating in Portland. No other market registered higher than a 0.7 local rating (OREGONLIVE.com, 5/17)….The FA Cup final featuring Manchester City-Stoke City last Saturday averaged 6.8 million viewers on ITV1, marking the "best FA Cup final audience" since the tournament returned to the network two years ago (GUARDIAN, 5/16).
NOTES: Speed averaged 1.023 million viewers for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Lucas Oil 200 from Dover Int'l Speedway last Friday night from 8:30-11:02pm ET, up 37% from 745,000 viewers for the same race last year. Through six NCWTS races, Speed is averaging 1.144 million viewers, up 15% from 998,000 viewers at the same point last season (THE DAILY).
